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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I don't think there are. The only band to have come after SY that remotely springs to mind is, as has already been mentioned, Radiohead. Actually,the only band before or since SY that I'd put above them in terms of their ambition is probably The Beatles. Pink Floyd might be another candidate, but they strike me as being ambitious in a slightly different way to either SY or the Beatles.
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This is why I have trouble with the whole "ambitious" thing. Besides Radiohead, arguably U2 might be there (though they mostly have been around simultaneously with Sonic Youth), it just so happens their ambition has led them to make albums I hate. They've still flirted with increasing the vocabulary of mainstream superstardom, it's just they're so damn annoying.